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This tutorial brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from the disciplines of Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science to engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues about responsible AI. Ethicists frequently argue in favor of principled approaches and optimizing for certain values, but the complex real world of AI design tends to be a place of trade-offs, bargaining, satisficing, and cost-efficiency, where values for society at large are not necessarily attributed a central role. On the other hand, computer scientists and designers usually only have a surface-level understanding of ethical theory, and as a result often neglect engaging in a thorough, sustained discussion of the ethical issues important in AI design. This tutorial will help bridge this gap through cross-disciplinary dialogue and reflection. Ultimately, we hope to operationalize responsible, ethically informed design such that it can be realistically implemented in AI development.
Organizers:
Michael Dale is a postdoctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a research fellow of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) research program.
Paulan Korenhof is a postdoctoral researcher philosophy of technology of Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence at the Philosophy Group (PHI) and Environmental Policy group (ENP) at Wageningen University.
Catholijn Jonker is co-founder of the Delft Design for Values Institute, co-director of the Delft Digital Ethics Centre, and vice-coordinator of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. She is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University.